BEIRUT: A deal involving the sale of 40 German Leapard-1 tanks and 32 YPR armored infantry fighting vehicles from Belgium to Lebanon will most likely not be authorized by the German Security Council, German chargee d'affaires in Beirut, Irene Plank, said on Friday.

If the chargee could have just kept PP arguing a while longer (a couple of weeks, maybe) so they could keep this debt on their books, the $81B asset value would have pushed their (on paper) profits up to where their stock price would have ballooned and someone (he who was charged the $81B perhaps) could make a fortune by shorting the stock in anticipation of its eventual fall when the charges finally got reversed ...